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Meaning of black

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  black
      adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having
             little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
             incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as
             coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: {white}]
      2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially
         of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black
         people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of
         civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: {white}]
      3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks";
         "black words"
      4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
         "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always
         been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of
         things" [syn: {black}, {bleak}, {dim}]
      5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
         dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart
         has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the
         dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic
         hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on
         punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: {black}, {dark},
         {sinister}]
      6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
         consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
         Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
         disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if
         true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
         Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
         it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: {black},
         {calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]
      7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
         "a face black with fury" [syn: {black}, {blackened}]
      8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-
         black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn:
         {black}, {pitch-black}, {pitch-dark}]
      9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
         "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to
         savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {grim}, {mordant}]
      10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black
          propaganda"
      11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
          taxes" [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market},
          {contraband}, {smuggled}]
      12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
          disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
          records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
          Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
          opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of
          cowardice" [syn: {black}, {disgraceful}, {ignominious},
          {inglorious}, {opprobrious}, {shameful}]
      13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
      14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
          outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
          {black}, {smutty}]
      n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
           lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
           {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}] [ant: {white},
           {whiteness}]
      2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total
         darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: {total darkness},
         {lightlessness}, {blackness}, {pitch blackness}, {black}]
      3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
         formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
         (1728-1799) [syn: {Black}, {Joseph Black}]
      4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn:
         {Black}, {Shirley Temple Black}, {Shirley Temple}]
      5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
         ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {Black person},
         {blackamoor}, {Negro}, {Negroid}]
      6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: {white}]
      7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore
         black"
      v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
           "The ceiling blackened" [syn: {blacken}, {melanize},
           {melanise}, {nigrify}, {black}] [ant: {white}, {whiten}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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